Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève

The Rue of the Mountain Holy-Genevieve is a street of the 5e district of Paris located on the Montagne Holy-Genevieve.

She starts to the 2 Rue Monge and 47 (a) Boulevard Saint-Germain and finish with 18 rue Saint-Etienne du Mont and 2 place Sainte-Geneviève.

Its name originates in the Holy-Genevieve mountain, of the name of the abbey. It belongs to the old Gallo-Roman way going from Lutèce to Fontainebleau. It exists since XIIIe century.

It bore the names of:

  • street Holy-Genevieve (1266-1276),
  • street Holy-Genevieve Grant,
  • street Holy-Genevieve of the Mount,
  • street of the Mount,
  • street of Butcheries,
  • street of the Mountain (of 1793 to 1815)

One finds there in particular:

  • the buildings of the old polytechnic school until 1976, today they are divided between private apartments and the Ministry for Research and Higher education.
  • the Museum of the Police headquarter, lodged in the police headquarters of the 5e district of Paris
  • the Dojo of the Mountain Holy-Genevieve, one of the oldest clubs of Martial arts of Europe founded in 1953 by the Master Henry Plée.

Sources

  • Extracts from the official nomenclature of the ways of Paris

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